Scientists have been investigating what brought about the ultimate demise of the last remaining mammoths. Marianne Dehasque and Love Dalen: In science, we usually share our successes and ignore the less glamorous mishaps. We decided to follow a different approach. This is the story of how multiple generations of scientists collaborated to decipher the genome of the mammoth formerly known as Lonely Boy, often referred to as the last mammoth on the Earth.

Mysterious 'sudden event' wiped out the last of the woolly mammoths

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Woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island for 6,000 years after their mainland cousins had perished. A new genomic study has revealed that this final population likely died from a sudden, mysterious event.

Mystery 'random event' killed off Earth's last woolly mammoths in Siberia, study claims

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Ivory and bone were so prized the site became a factory where they were transported and carved for centuries.

A Siberian Graveyard Reveals 800 Years Of Human-Mammoth Interactions

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The fossil record of our ape ancestors in Africa is almost nonexistent for a period of about 8 or 9 million years. This long gap lasted from about 16.5 million to 7 to 9 million years ago, during the Miocene geological epoch. Yet fossil remains in Europe and Asia show...

The Mystery of the Missing Apes Who Came Before Humans

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 A 43-year-old Australian avocado farmer found the fossilized remains of a pterosaur in the Australian outback that scientists now say is a new species of the prehistoric flying reptile which lived alongside the dinosaurs.Kevin Peterson, who reportedly also works as a curator at the Kronosaurus Korner Museum in Richmond, Australia, first discovered bones of the reptile in 2021. Paleontologists announced on Wednesday that the bones found in central Queensland were from a previously unknown species of pterosaur, a giant winged reptile that lived 100 million years ago.Mr Petersen, who has a deep interest in paleontology, found the bones while...

Avocado farmer’s discovery in Australian outback is new species of pterosaur, scientists say

DNA from prehistoric and modern-day people suggests that humans interbred with Neanderthals 47,000 years ago for a period lasting 6,800 years.

Neanderthals and humans interbred 47,000 years ago for nearly 7,000 years, research suggests

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A collection of new species discovered lurking on the seafloor exemplifies exactly how alien this strange world is. In the Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean between Mexico and Hawaii, marine scientists have discovered animals humanity has never seen before: creatures who live very different lives, in the permanent darkness of the abyssopelagic.

Alien-Looking Species Seen For First Time Ever in Ocean's Darkest Depths

Important scientific discoveries often come from the most unassuming sources. Such is the case with a modest, 6-centimeter-wide fossil of bone and teeth discovered on a Texas beach that belonged to a prehistoric large cat. Initially, this fossil might not catch the eye, looking more like a nondescript, lumpy rock...

"Ugly" fossil find reveals secrets of large prehistoric cats

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A tiger shark has surprised Australian scientists on an ocean research trip by regurgitating a spiky land-loving echidna in front of them.Researchers from James Cook University said Thursday they were tagging marine life on the northeast coast when the three-meter tiger shark they caught vomited a dead echidna — a spiny creature similar to a hedgehog.Nicolas Lubitz said he could only assume the shark gobbled up the echidna — also known as spiny anteaters — while it was swimming in the shallows off the island, or traveling between islands, which the animals are known to do."We were quite shocked at...

Shark spits out land-loving creature in front of shocked scientists

Scientists have uncovered the remains of a small, ancient predatory reptile in Brazil, shedding new light on the diversity of crocodile-like creatures that roamed the Earth before dinosaurs took center stage. The newly described species, named Parvosuchus aurelioi, lived approximately 237 million years ago during the Middle-Late Triassic period. A...

New Ancient Crocodile-Like Reptile Unearthed in Brazil

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A crater in Siberia is expanding faster than anticipated due to climate change, scientists have discovered, saying it now poses problems for the surrounding habitat.  

The Batagaika slump, known as the “Gateway to Hell” and located in the freezing Yana Highlands, currently covers about 200 acres of land and can be seen in satellite images captured from space. 

The crater was first detected on images taken in 1991 and has been growing in both width and depth since that time as global warming causes permafrost (frozen soil sediment) to melt. 







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Siberia’s ‘Gateway to Hell’ is rapidly expanding in size, scientists discover

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4000 Years After Woolly Mammoths Went Extinct, We Might Finally Know Why

In science, we usually share our successes and ignore the less glamorous mishaps. We decided to follow a different approach. This is the story of how...

4000 Years After Woolly Mammoths Went Extinct, We Might Finally Know Why

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